THE TRAJECTORY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES THROUGH HISTORY

Abstract

Abstract

The article presented here contains necessary information about people with disabilities, their trajectory through the ages, the Brazilian legislation that supports this part of the population, demystifying labels and prejudices attributed to them, as well as realizing that it is necessary to give visibility to the subject, through a sensitive look, which has education as its object of action, the effective way to humanize a society, bringing reflections based on human and moral values that are essential for an inclusive society, with the perception of the influence of the social environment on the development of individuals, highlighting respect for others and their individualities, and also the leading role of people with disabilities when their rights are guaranteed by law and monitored by the public authorities that represent them. The research was based on personal experiences and the reading of specific materials on people with disabilities, such as Otto Silva, a person with a disability and author of the book "A epopeia ignorada" (The Ignored Epic), where it was possible to find precious information that added a lot of value to this research work, which seeks to show that, despite the progress made, this section of the population still doesn't occupy all the spaces it should, often remaining a supporting player in its own history, given the structural ableism that accompanies the entire trajectory of the PCDs and the absence of the constituted authorities to defend and guarantee the definitive inclusion of this group of people in society not only with equality, but above all with equity.

Keywords: inclusion; empowerment; history; exclusion; protagonism.